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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the mid-1990s, two Stanford PhD students named Larry Page and Sergey Brin began working on a search algorithm they called BackRub, which ranked web pages based on how many other pages linked to them. What started as a research project became a company in 1998, when Page and Brin moved into…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Forget romantic postcards. This is Paris's real story, a 2,000 year saga where Roman conquerors drowned Celtic rebels in the Seine, revolutionaries guillotined kings on the Place de la Concorde, and Haussmann's bulldozers buried entire neighborhoods to build boulevards of power. From plague r…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Russia's history reads like a series of dramatic reinventions, from medieval principalities to a sprawling empire, from tsarist rule to Soviet power, and from Cold War superpower to a modern state still shaped by its past. Each era left deep marks on the country's politics, culture, and ident…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The land that would become Belgium has been at the crossroads of European history for thousands of years. Celtic tribes, followed by Roman legions under Julius Caesar, shaped its earliest recorded chapters. Later it became the heart of Charlemagne's Carolingian empire, before feudal counties…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What if the history of European civilization was built on far more cruelty than most people realize This book exposes 2,000 years of hidden horrors, from Spartan infanticide and Roman arena punishments to witch burnings, plague pits, and wars so devastating that survivors resorted to cannibal…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Few countries have fought as persistently against both nature and political domination as the Netherlands. Its earliest inhabitants left megalithic tombs on the sandy uplands while the Romans drew their northern frontier along the Rhine, facing Batavian tribes whose revolt in 69 AD became par…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Forget golden arches. This is the story of how two broke visionaries took over a failing burger joint, fought corporate giants, and turned a rusty $37 broiler into a $23 billion empire. From near bankruptcy before the Whopper even existed to franchise revolts, botched ad campaigns, and hostil…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Before there were printed books, there were cave paintings, clay tablets, and papyrus scrolls. The journey from ancient tally marks to the bound volumes on your shelf took thousands of years and crossed multiple continents. This book traces that journey, from the earliest human efforts to rec…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For thousands of years, people have found ways to not only survive but thrive in one of the most extreme environments on Earth. Greenland's history stretches far beyond ice and isolation. It is a story of remarkable cultures, ingenious adaptation, and the collision between Arctic peoples and…